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bullseye is mysterious and mentally
unstable assassin for hire who notably
takes great pleasure in his work what
makes him stand out from his peers is
his unparalleled skill as a marksman
which verges on superhuman he hasn’t
been deemed a mutant or metahuman but he
can turn pretty much any object into a
lethal projectile act that has piqued
physical conditioning skills as a
martial artist and the fact that he at
one point caught adamantium laced to his
skeleton and you have one formidable
killer
bullseye made his comic debut in 1976 is
daredevil number 131 quickly proving
that his villainous moniker was more
than just a cool name apart from being
hell-bent on killing the man without
fear and doing it in the most public way
possible bullseye would largely remain a
man of mystery for decades despite
becoming one of Daredevils most
persistent and influential villains
bull’s-eyes past is so mysterious that
we don’t even know what his real name is
Benjamin Poindexter is one that comes up
most often but we’ve also seen him use
the aliases Lester jangles and Leonard
McLain among others it wasn’t until 1996
‘as electro number two that we got our
first look into bull’s-eyes past and
even then it was far from a fully
fleshed out picture of the troubled
villains formative years as he tangled
with a woman he was murdered we were
treated to flashbacks from his youth in
it we learned that bullseye came from a
broken home his mother ran off with a
Salesman when he was young and his
father was an angry abusive drunk
disinterested in school
bullseye who we learned is colorblind
skips to practice the only thing he’s
good at target sports after a beating
from his father a young bullseye would
paint a target on his father’s head
faking the man suicide in what would
become his first kill and then nothing
after this tiny peek under the hood
bullseye returned to being a closed book
until 2004 when the fan favorite villain
got his very own miniseries bullseye
greatest hits
in the first issue bullseye talks of his
childhood contradicting much of what we
learned in election number two in it we
also see memories that suggest his name
is Leonard again he talks of an abusive
alcoholic father though this time his
mom stuck around another victim of his
father’s abuse as he tells it his
brother burned down their apartment in
an attempt to kill their dad but ended
up killing himself and his mother in the
process after the fire bullseye went
into foster care and started playing
baseball going straight to the minors
after high school graduation quickly
getting bored however he made the game
lethal by targeting and killing a batter
with a pitch from there bullseye was
forced to join the military eventually
being deployed to Nicaragua to Train
rebels where according to him he took
control of the cocaine trade creating a
bottleneck to the states and drawing the
attention of the Punisher after his
messy encounter with Frank Castle down
south
bullseye returned stateside where he
became the masked criminal we first met
in 1976 s daredevil number 131 except in
Greatest Hits number 4 we see the
creation of his costume by a punk-rock
tailor and get the grandiose
interpretation of his rise to fame as a
criminal and even more shockingly a
covert NSA agent then in the fifth issue
of greatest hits
bullseye drops a bombshell he made up
most of what he just said he was the one
who tried to burn his father alive for
the man survived his father was the NSA
agent and just so happens to have been
locked in the same prison where bullseye
has been telling this whole story the
miniseries ends with him breaking out of
a cell and proceeding to finish the job
of killing his father by burning down
the facility when bullseye tells agent
Baldry that his life story was a
fabrication it throws a lot into
question from the flashbacks you can
tell that bullseye is blurring fact and
fiction throughout Greatest Hits hiding
certain things from the agent bullseye
is an unreliable narrator and with so
little other information to go on this
is our best rough outline of his early
years bullseye is a villain with serious
daddy issues though and they don’t end
there his father later identified as the
kingmaker would resurface in 2009’s Dark
Reign Hawkeye miniseries during which
bullseye would seemingly finally kill
his dad after two failed
much like DC’s Joker bull’s-eyes
conflicting history as part of his
appeal he’s a mystery an enigma
a villain who delighted in laying a
false trail at the end of the day the
lack of his historical certainty adds
more to his psychotic personality than
any definitive backstory ever could
here’s what we know for sure from the
moment he became a freelance assassin he
quickly established himself as a major
player in the criminal underworld of
marvel leaving his mark on the life of
daredevil when he made his debut in 1976
as daredevil number 131 he proved
himself to be a foe the likes of which
daredevil had never faced before and
their first encounter
bullseye actually bested the man without
fear though daredevil eventually got the
better of him
bullseye would continue to be a thorn in
the side of the former it was during
this time that bull’s-eyes insanity
first began to make itself known a
character trait that would go on to be
developed further in the decades to come
though they tangled multiple times in
the years following bull’s-eyes debut
1981 was the year he cemented his status
as the hero’s arch-nemesis after killing
Daredevils troubled ally and lover
Elektra bullseye has continued to define
himself as one of Marvel’s most
compelling and distinct villains after
killing Elektra his fight with daredevil
left him paralyzed but a treatment
involving adamantium provided by
Professor Kenji Aoyama aka Lord Dark
Wind would eventually get him back on
his feet and stronger than ever in 1990
he actually donned the daredevil costume
during Matt Murdock’s absence and tried
his hand at crime fighting and
vigilantism albeit as you can imagine in
his own twisted way only Matt Murdock
dressed up as bullseye could convince
the villain that he was not in fact the
real daredevil bullseye would go on to
further scar daredevil when he later
killed another love interest of
Murdock’s Karen page during the Dark
Reign storyline he would once again play
the twisted superhero when he donned the
mantle of Hawkeye as a member of the
Dark Avengers bullseye might be
something of an enigma but he’s one that
we never grow tired of while this back
story continues to invite questions and
inspire doubts his character development
over the years makes him one of the most
well defined fleshed out villains in
Daredevils rogues gallery
from a tough childhood to us a pair of
death at the hands of daredevil to his
eventual return to going blind
bull’s-eyes been through the wringer and
we can’t wait to see what this madman
does next do you agree with our picks
check out these other great clips from
WatchMojo and be sure to subscribe and
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news for his targets welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’ll explore
the comic book origin of bullseye before
we begin we publish new content every
day so be sure to subscribe to our
channel and ring the bell to get
notified about our latest videos
bullseye is mysterious and mentally
unstable assassin for hire who notably
takes great pleasure in his work what
makes him stand out from his peers is
his unparalleled skill as a marksman
which verges on superhuman he hasn’t
been deemed a mutant or metahuman but he
can turn pretty much any object into a
lethal projectile act that has piqued
physical conditioning skills as a
martial artist and the fact that he at
one point caught adamantium laced to his
skeleton and you have one formidable
killer
bullseye made his comic debut in 1976 is
daredevil number 131 quickly proving
that his villainous moniker was more
than just a cool name apart from being
hell-bent on killing the man without
fear and doing it in the most public way
possible bullseye would largely remain a
man of mystery for decades despite
becoming one of Daredevils most
persistent and influential villains
bull’s-eyes past is so mysterious that
we don’t even know what his real name is
Benjamin Poindexter is one that comes up
most often but we’ve also seen him use
the aliases Lester jangles and Leonard
McLain among others it wasn’t until 1996
‘as electro number two that we got our
first look into bull’s-eyes past and
even then it was far from a fully
fleshed out picture of the troubled
villains formative years as he tangled
with a woman he was murdered we were
treated to flashbacks from his youth in
it we learned that bullseye came from a
broken home his mother ran off with a
Salesman when he was young and his
father was an angry abusive drunk
disinterested in school
bullseye who we learned is colorblind
skips to practice the only thing he’s
good at target sports after a beating
from his father a young bullseye would
paint a target on his father’s head
faking the man suicide in what would
become his first kill and then nothing
after this tiny peek under the hood
bullseye returned to being a closed book
until 2004 when the fan favorite villain
got his very own miniseries bullseye
greatest hits
in the first issue bullseye talks of his
childhood contradicting much of what we
learned in election number two in it we
also see memories that suggest his name
is Leonard again he talks of an abusive
alcoholic father though this time his
mom stuck around another victim of his
father’s abuse as he tells it his
brother burned down their apartment in
an attempt to kill their dad but ended
up killing himself and his mother in the
process after the fire bullseye went
into foster care and started playing
baseball going straight to the minors
after high school graduation quickly
getting bored however he made the game
lethal by targeting and killing a batter
with a pitch from there bullseye was
forced to join the military eventually
being deployed to Nicaragua to Train
rebels where according to him he took
control of the cocaine trade creating a
bottleneck to the states and drawing the
attention of the Punisher after his
messy encounter with Frank Castle down
south
bullseye returned stateside where he
became the masked criminal we first met
in 1976 s daredevil number 131 except in
Greatest Hits number 4 we see the
creation of his costume by a punk-rock
tailor and get the grandiose
interpretation of his rise to fame as a
criminal and even more shockingly a
covert NSA agent then in the fifth issue
of greatest hits
bullseye drops a bombshell he made up
most of what he just said he was the one
who tried to burn his father alive for
the man survived his father was the NSA
agent and just so happens to have been
locked in the same prison where bullseye
has been telling this whole story the
miniseries ends with him breaking out of
a cell and proceeding to finish the job
of killing his father by burning down
the facility when bullseye tells agent
Baldry that his life story was a
fabrication it throws a lot into
question from the flashbacks you can
tell that bullseye is blurring fact and
fiction throughout Greatest Hits hiding
certain things from the agent bullseye
is an unreliable narrator and with so
little other information to go on this
is our best rough outline of his early
years bullseye is a villain with serious
daddy issues though and they don’t end
there his father later identified as the
kingmaker would resurface in 2009’s Dark
Reign Hawkeye miniseries during which
bullseye would seemingly finally kill
his dad after two failed
much like DC’s Joker bull’s-eyes
conflicting history as part of his
appeal he’s a mystery an enigma
a villain who delighted in laying a
false trail at the end of the day the
lack of his historical certainty adds
more to his psychotic personality than
any definitive backstory ever could
here’s what we know for sure from the
moment he became a freelance assassin he
quickly established himself as a major
player in the criminal underworld of
marvel leaving his mark on the life of
daredevil when he made his debut in 1976
as daredevil number 131 he proved
himself to be a foe the likes of which
daredevil had never faced before and
their first encounter
bullseye actually bested the man without
fear though daredevil eventually got the
better of him
bullseye would continue to be a thorn in
the side of the former it was during
this time that bull’s-eyes insanity
first began to make itself known a
character trait that would go on to be
developed further in the decades to come
though they tangled multiple times in
the years following bull’s-eyes debut
1981 was the year he cemented his status
as the hero’s arch-nemesis after killing
Daredevils troubled ally and lover
Elektra bullseye has continued to define
himself as one of Marvel’s most
compelling and distinct villains after
killing Elektra his fight with daredevil
left him paralyzed but a treatment
involving adamantium provided by
Professor Kenji Aoyama aka Lord Dark
Wind would eventually get him back on
his feet and stronger than ever in 1990
he actually donned the daredevil costume
during Matt Murdock’s absence and tried
his hand at crime fighting and
vigilantism albeit as you can imagine in
his own twisted way only Matt Murdock
dressed up as bullseye could convince
the villain that he was not in fact the
real daredevil bullseye would go on to
further scar daredevil when he later
killed another love interest of
Murdock’s Karen page during the Dark
Reign storyline he would once again play
the twisted superhero when he donned the
mantle of Hawkeye as a member of the
Dark Avengers bullseye might be
something of an enigma but he’s one that
we never grow tired of while this back
story continues to invite questions and
inspire doubts his character development
over the years makes him one of the most
well defined fleshed out villains in
Daredevils rogues gallery
from a tough childhood to us a pair of
death at the hands of daredevil to his
eventual return to going blind
bull’s-eyes been through the wringer and
we can’t wait to see what this madman
does next do you agree with our picks
check out these other great clips from
WatchMojo and be sure to subscribe and
ring the bell to be notified about our
latest videos
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